Intervening Sequences in Evolution and Development

by Edwin Martin Stone

Biologists have long been puzzled by the peculiar arrangement of genes on the strands of DNA. Genes are interrupted by non-coding regions--intervening sequences or introns--that function in some developmental systems and probably were involved in the evolution of the earliest genes. However, biologists did not anticipate the existence of introns on either functional or evolutionary grounds, and many questions about them remain unsolved. This research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195043375
• ISBN13: 9780195043372
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages